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sort using TAB as field separator in bash
I have run into this problem several times recently, and decided to finally write down the solution for myself rather than keep searching the internet for it. This is the problem: if you want to sort a file that is tab-delimited (and some of the filelds contain spaces), then you must explicitly tell sort to…
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Back in business
The building where I have my server which runs this blog lost power on Wednesday, June 4th, and it finally got restored this morning. Fortunately, I am pretty religious about making backups on an external hard drive, so I had a day-old backup, and was able to upload most stuff to my dreamhost account, and…
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ubuntu 8.04 released today. Where are the torrents?
There has been many news stories about the latest release of ubuntu, so it is not a surprise that their site seems very unresponsive. I like kubuntu, so I started downloading a kubuntu torrent. If you have trouble with the main site, I am making the torrent available on mine as well. For KDE3 kubuntu-8.04-desktop-amd64.iso.torrent…
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Friendfeed plugin for wordpress
Friendfeed released an API a couple weeks ago. This made me excited, as I figured I could write a wordpress plugin to grab comments people leave on my friendfeed back into the blog. I did not of course find the time to do this right away, as I have already been spending way too much…